awards on our website foxbaltimore.com. now here is jeff barnd and jennifer gilbert, with the "late edition." >> a quick arrest in a murder case. >> he actually called 911. >> how a call for help leadd to a confession. >> a former baltimore tv reporter in trouble with the law again. what he is accused of tonight.

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phylicia barnes. north carolina teen that %-baltimore city.visit to a tip led police to leakin park but found nothing. that's comforting for a mother that today blasted her baltimore relatives. including phylicia's half sister. >> she is not telling everything that she knows. she didn't even tell me that it was a lot of traffic going in and out of her apartment. drugs and alcohol activity. @% daughter was a flower. innocent before she found them. >> phyliiia last seen december 28 leaving her half sister's northwest baltimore apartment. >> a tractor trailer crashes, catches on fire and exppodes on the beltway. driver was killed. our cameras captured the fiery scene from a neighborhood that backs up to 695. this happened around 4:30 this morning on the inner loop between delaney valley and providence road. 39-year-old russell lewis was the driver of the tractor trailer. he veered off the road. hit an

abandon minivan on the shoulder and crashed into a sound wall. >> i was asleep. we heard a large thud. like an explosion. definitely got woke up out of bed. >> causing the tractor trailer to lose control unknown. but alcohol and speed are not factors. you can see more of today's crash n our website. foxbaltimore.com/raw news. >> state lawmakers will consider a new alcohol tax this year. retailers say it is very bad for their business. supporters say it will guarantee much needed revenue for the state of maryland. it depends on what side of the fence you are on on this issue. >> as far as i understand it, they have not raised the liquor tax in a long time. they need the revenue. yes, they should do that. >> because i expect it doesn't mean i am happy about it. >> the tax hike is equivalent to can of beer, for instance, would be taxed an extra dime. -nd a case of beer wouud be taxed an extra $2.40.

we asked you all day oday. should the alcohol tax be increased? 64% say yes. 36% say no. one viewer wrote on facebook. yes, dimm a drink is not bad. danny wrote, however on facebook. no more taxes, we cannot take it anymore. >> she was elected by voters. but disqualifyed by the governor. tonight ramona moore baker is a judge without a job. in noveeber, voters elected her to sit on the city's orphan's court. but at the same time, they approved a constitutional amendment, requiring baltimore's orphan's court judges to be members of the bar. because baker is not a member of the maryland bar, the governor's office said that she job qualified. >> are you saying that all the votes that were voted for me. 109,000 votes. it went for not. >> while baker reviews her legal options it is up to the governor to nominate a replacement. >> former tv reporter dennis edwards is in jail again this evening.

he was arrested last wednesday. charged with assaulting his wife. he posted bail but was arrested again new years day. charged with violating a protective order. and destruction of property. tonight he is held on $500,000 bond. edwards was press secretary for city council president jacc and also worked for w jay z and wbal tv news. >> baltimore city council committee held public interviews tonight with four candidates. vyinn forrone seat. 9th district seat left vacant by retiring councilwoman agnes welch. her son is among those wanting to replace her. guilty plea to assault and gun charges a decade back has added controversy to his bid. the panel's recommendation will -e considered by the council, next week. >> bad day for brett farve. two massage therapists sued him sayinggthey lost their part-time jobs with the jets after they complained about suggestive text

messages from farve. now they are not claiming that farve texted them directly. he texted a colleague suggested they all get-together. two say they lost work with the jets after they complained. now thisscomes five days after the nfl fined farve 50 grand over the other case. >> five maryland schools in the top 100 of kiplinger's best values in public colleges. in fact, university of maryland college parkkcomes in at number five. st. mary's of maryland number 40. salisbury 60. towson 78th. and university of maryland baltimore at 91. >> good day for a texas man that is cleared of a crime he did not commit. dna evidence shows cornelius dupree was not guilty of a robbery and rape in 1979. sentenced. he goes free today at the age of

55. >> a chance for a late week storm. >> we're watching that one. vytas is anyway. he is here to tell us how bad it will get and who will get it. >> all of us should see a little light accumulation. depends on where you are. may see more flakes than others. but nonetheless, today. we saw relatively comfortable temperatures. 45 in baltimore. 46 in hagerstown. south of us, temperatures up to 50. so a little mild push of air up out of the south.@ we did enjoy sunshine today. now looking at the h.d. radar. you can see we have clear skies. temperatures dropping down into the upper 200 and lower 30s across he state. but we will start to cool down toward the end of the week. and potential there to get snow on friday as we see a clipper dropping down out of canadaa it is not an impressive storm we could see across the area. and continue to watch thatment but better chance next week to get more we have to watch next week early tuesday. closer look at it in the seven day. coming up.

>> raven's heading to the playoffs this weekend. purple pride has taken to a new level in the city. ravens grounds crews spent this morning painting the team emblem outside of city hall. project drew a small crowd. especialll when the mayor offered o help. purple passion and pigskin pride are leaving their mark all over the city. federal hill got the same >> 10 years ago, we were right in the same place. and we won. game by game. ended up in the superbowl. there is the same feeling around town this year. i am excited. >> and purple lights will also@ be going up downtown, in the upcoming days. you can see superbowl xlv only on fox 45. the game is sunday. february the sixth. >> new online grocery service could come to baltimore. fresh direct, based in long island is looking to expand to several big city, including

baltimore, washington, and philadelphia. the internet grocer said it could offer food that is fresh and less expensive. because it comes directly from >> the arundel county executive is trying to get the word ut about a new transportation option. p john leopold said that federal stimulus money is paying for 26 buses, to take commuters in piney orchard to oden marc station and fort meade shuttle bus. service is set to get started in february. >> taxpayers have three extra days to file this ear. irs is changed the tax deadline to april 18. because of the emancipation hooiday observed in d.c. on the 15th of the month. as always, irs reminds taxpayers that e-file is the fastest way to get a refund. >> maryland's second slots casino is open for business. >> three, two, one.

>> governor martin o'malley helped to celebrate the grand opening at the casino at ocean downs. with 750 slot machines, and created 200 new full-time jobs. about time. delaware is competition. >> i think it is great that we can gamble and keep the money in maryland. >> now the opening of this casino comes three months after the debut of hollywood casino in cecil county. >> the mega millions jackpot has ggown to $355 million. it was at 330 but it is pumped up. we were in -- back in 2003, baltimore county woman won the jackpot. theecash option for this drawing -s $224 million. >> after you win. what will you do with it. >> help my family.

pay off their bills.3 get them out of debt. >> find out those winning numbers. coming up. in about 15 minutes. >> lewd videos lead to the firing of a naval commander. why he is not completely out of a job, next. @% a man convicted of mude

>> high ranking naval officer loses command of his ship after raunchy videos are released starring the navy captain himself. jennifer griffin has the fallout at the pentagon. >> there is a really good chance you will be offended. >> navy captain owen honors hamming it up for the camera will not be commanding the uss enttrprise. >> he is held accountable for the poor judgment and inappropriate actions repeatedly demonstrateed in those videos. >> the navy relieving high ranking officer avafter the virginia pilot newspaper released videos produced by and starring owen's over the weekend. videos that feature honors using gay slurs and staging suggestive shower scenes. humerus skits and changed their tune saying they are not acceptable and were under

investigation. >>as naval officers, we are held, indeed, we must be held, to higher standards of performance and conduct. >> the videos were made four years ago, and played during movie night when owen's was executive officer, or second in command of the ship. one former naval officer said that owen's was guilty of not just bad judgment but failing to recognize a changing culture in the navy. but some sailors that serve on the enterprise defend him. starting a support page for the navy officer on facebook. they said his homemade movies provided a much needed boost. morale on he ship is part of his job. the navy has already chosen a commander to replace honors. when the uss enterprise deploys to the middle east some time in mid january. at the pentagon. jennifer griffin. fox news. >> bb arkansas, where new years

eve revelers and fireworks may have killed scores of black birds. loud bang scared one bird and thousands followed. crashed into homes, ars, and each other. residents spent jjnuary 1 cleaning up 4000 dead black birds. doesn't make sense on how to start the year. >> no sense in this story whatsoever. convicted killer in new york will soon be inheriting a quarter million dollars at least, upon his release from his victim. brandon killed his mother-in-law, diane edwwrds two years ago. and edwards daughter dianna inherited the money, 500 grand. dianna died in february, leaving everything to brandon. the killer. some judge better do something really fast. >> a florida woman is going to spend the next month living in a fence enclosure with two lions. florida man, did i say woman? a man. james runs the wildlife rehabilitation near tampa

florida, home to 100 abandon alligators, tigers and lions. >> they are bred used for photo sessions at state fares and carnivals where you pay to get your picture taken. when the animal reaches 40 pounds it cannot be used for that. if there is no home to take it they uthanize them. >> the he wants to raise awarrness for his facility. and hopefully the money is not used for his recooperation or even worse. >> yeah. he has good intentions but really. >> lets sleep with other animals like a dove or dead black bird from arkansas. >> there you go. go to our weather and changes on the horizon. >> go to chief meteorologist vytas reid with the latest. >> we're talking about some cooler temperatures that will move in..3 down the road. going right to it. out. looking at relatively quiet conditions out there. clear skies. and temperatures are sitting at 36 degrees. winds are calm. and humidity levels, 66%. almanac page shows the story of the day. topped out at 45 degrees.

cold start at 20. normally we are att42. so you can see temperatures are above what they should be. no precipitation to talk about. we could see that change as we get closer to the weekend with a chance of flakes to fly. -how you that coming up in a moment. but highs across the state today. nice. 48 in winchester. northern virginia. %-50 charlottesville. in d.c., 43. and back in hagerstown. 46. so definitely there was a nice warm push from the south. currently in the 30s. we could see them drop into the upper -- or upper 20s, lower 30s through the overnight. still a light southerly wind. but not by much. as ww go through he overnight. we will continue to see the clouds mainly north offus. few snow showers up toward pennsylvania.@ but bigger picture what we will see happen actually is a little light disturbance comee across the great lakes. north of us. but there is area of low pressure. a little low that will drop down, over our region, by giving us a chance for snow showers. but it looks like converging with a low out of the south that

will be moving along the coastal regions. and with that energy, combined with this other low, this3 clipper. it could give us light accumulating ssow across the mid-atlantic. pushing up to pennsylvania and %-so watch that closer. it will get stronger north of us. new york, and boston. so watch that as it develops. but we could get alight accumulation from it friday and friday night. so right now. we have two converging lows, that will continue to move into our area. giving us a chance for snow. but it looks like this one will be over the atlantic. and this one will kind of drape over the region, giving us a chance for a little bit of light accumulation. continue to monitor it. tonight clear skies. 30 degrees. tomorrow, sun and clouds. day. high of 39. and five-day forecast shows 39 for thursday. with mostly cloudy skies. cloudy friday with snow showers. pretty much off-and-on through the day. and then that willinger around for friday night. maybe to saturday. and then we start to clear out with breezy conditions by sunday.

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startling. over the past six weeks, offensive unit fell from 12th in the nfl all the way down to 22. and last week against the bengals ddd not even hit 200-yard mark. people are getting ansi around here. and john harbaugh feels your pain. >> i watch our offense every single day. in practice. i know how good we are. @%n be. and how close we are to being good. i think, we have talented players talented coaches. working hard to be really good. and they have won 12 games. playing complimentary football. bottom line. still, we could be a much more potent offense. keep chopping wood and keep coaching and prrcticing hard. and we will breakout and play good offense. certainty. >> college basketball. gary williims and the terps closed out a month long five game homestand tonight hosting colgate. came in 1-11. guess what happened? colgate scored first two points. but man it was all maryland from there.

stogland spots up from long range. terps led 7-2. later, senior buoy drives, goes off the glass. for two. terps on the 11-zero run. then buoy fakes the three. gives it up to gregory. he slams it down with two hands. marylanddon the win. and pay jet gets involved. pulls down the rebound. plus the foul. made the free throw to give maryland 20-2 lead. and terps get everybody involved tonight. wise in the post gets the turn around shot to fall. caps a 22-0 run. nine terps scored first half. later in the half. maryland getting fancy. howard, goes between his legs. to williams. cut to the hoop for easy two. terps led 43-17 at the break. and they go on to pound colgate. maryland's next game, that's right, duke on sunday night. >> back in baltimore. after a busy off season. macphail today addressed one of the biggest remaining needs.

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>> seven-day forecast hows 39 degrees. sun and clouds tomorrow. @% on thursday with more clouds. then possibility of a little accumulating snow friday with a clipper slipping through the area. 34 saturday, system leaves us with breezy conditions through the weekend. then monday, tuesday, lloking at a cans for more snow showers by tuesday. back to you. >> thank you, vytas. @%at will do it for the "late edition." thank you for joining us tonight. i am jeff barnd. >> and i am jennifer gilbe

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